Existential Quote by Ray Brassier Download Open image ““Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity.”” — Ray Brassier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Existential Existentialism Nihilism Opportunity
“...not positive about the definition of existentialism but it seems like the opposite of nihilism in which case I suppose I may be.” — Autumn Copy Share Image
“Humans cannot live without illusions. For the men and women of today, an irrational faith in progress may be the only antidote to nihilism.… — John Gray Copy Share Image
“With nihilism, no discussion is possible; for the nihilist logic doubts the existence of its interlocutor, and is not quite sure that it exists… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“How can you expect my character to be solidly real, to be anything other than obviously imaginary, when everything is contingent anyway? My Character… — Jean Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I stopped living a long time ago, in order to simply exist. Now I am trying to leave existence, in order to step into… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
“To put it aphoristically, no experience can feel meaningful to a nihilist—that is, to someone who has already decided that life is meaningless.” — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“The philosophy that prepares a revolution and the sentiment that underpins the philosophy have, in every case the two pillars of nihilism and mysticism.” — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“This is what our essential being-in-the-world is – nihilistic annihilation.” — Arvydas Šliogeris Copy Share Image
“Nihil sub sole novum, I thought as I walked back down the hall to my room. Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Though nihilism has been relentlessly criticized for overemphasizing the dark side of human experience, it might be equally true that this overemphasis represents a… — John Marmysz Copy Share Image
The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
If nothing matters, then even the thought that nothing matters doesn't matter. And if it doesn't matter whether anything matters or not, then there's… — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
It was Kant who first rejected the Cartesian premise of the mind's self-transparency: the idea that when it comes to knowing our own minds,… — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
Nietzsche saw that ultimately the problem of nihilism is the problem of what to do with time: Why keep investing in the future when… — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
I think Enlightenment as an epistemic ideal involves rejecting the appeal to a fundamental stratum of non-conceptual self-evidence. — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
Psychoanalytic categories such as "neurosis", "psychosis", "mania", and "fixation" have become part of our everyday psychological vocabulary and we now routinely interpret states of… — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
Correlationism rejects metaphysical realism understood as the claim that the way the world is does not depend on how we take things to be.… — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
Philosophy ought to be able to give an account of rationality that is not wholly detached from science's account of nature, even if it… — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
Philosophers should resist the temptation to be publicly virtuous. Given an unjust society, from the vantage of what counts as the public good, they… — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
Sellars's "myth of Jones" is deployed against what Sellars calls "the myth of the categorial Given": the idea that to be aware of something… — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
Consciousness is not the ineluctable starting point for self-understanding because there is a difference between being conscious and understanding oneself as a conscious being.… — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
Philosophy would do well to desist from issuing any further injunctions about the need to re-establish the meaningfulness of existence, the purposefulness of life,… — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an existential threat. — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
Sometimes it has to do with other longings that are much more existential. Sometimes you go elsewhere not because you are not liking the… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it's probably… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
The argument that won the Brexit campaign is the one that said take back control... which is another way of saying we want to… — Frans Timmermans Copy Share Image
“When it has finished saying it, it no longer is. The longer it is in saying it, the more it can say it at… — Francis Ponge Copy Share Image
We have an existential crisis, which is the climate crisis. Canada is one of the laggards in the industrialized world. Our record is terrible. — Elizabeth May Copy Share Image
Did television execs have souls? Now, that was an existential question and a half. — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to solve, this… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I write very rarely. Only, in fact, when the sheet of paper suffers an existential crisis and threatens, if I don't surrender to it,… — Kiki Dimoula Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level that one… — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share Image
If I had to choose between the two ways of approaching the deity, I should prefer the existential relational way, to the abstract philosophical… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
